Botanical Garden: The Garden

About the garden

Even thought the NWU Botanical Garden spans less than three hectares, more than a 1500 plant species and a variety of animals and insects can be found in this garden. Most of the plants in the Botanical Garden are indigenous with the exception of a few exotic plants which are of botanical or educational value. A section of the garden, around a man-made ridge, is managed as a natural veld garden while the rest of the garden is more intensively managed. A variety of theme gardens make up the rest of the NWU Botanical Garden, including the Swamp Garden, Vlei Garden, Formal Indigenous Garden, Invader Display, Evolution Garden and Succulent Rockery.

Collections

The plant collections in the Botanical Garden are mainly focused on indigenous plants from the North-West Province as well as plants used for research and educational purposes. A few plant genera represented in the garden include Acacia, Aloe, Bonatea, Crinum, Dierama, Encephalartos, Eucomis, Eulophia, Euphorbia, Gasteria, Haworthia, Hypoxis, Kniphofia, Plectranthus, Podocarpus, Scadoxus and Zantedeschia to mention but a few.